In the beginning of the movie when the C/O launches Maverick, he picks up a red phone and gives his orders to the flight deck. That red phone is for talking to other ships, so who was he telling to launch Maverick? I've been stationed on that carrier (Enterprise) for almost 3 years.
Oh man, you've been on a ship for three years and you call him a C/O? It's CO. Little things like that catch the eyes of people who are actually stationed on ships.